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Solving the woolly mammoth conundrum: amino acid (15)N-enrichment suggests a distinct forage or habitat

Understanding woolly mammoth ecology is key to understanding Pleistocene community dynamics and evaluating the roles of human hunting and climate change in late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions. Previous isotopic studies of mammoths’ diet and physiology have been hampered by the ‘mammoth conundrum’...

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Autores principales: Schwartz-Narbonne, Rachel, Longstaffe, Fred J., Metcalfe, Jessica Z., Zazula, Grant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26056037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep09791